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A U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., ruled earlier this week that a group consisting of more than 50 members of the United Kingdom’s Parliament is considered a foreign “government entity” and cannot obtain information from U.S. intelligence agencies under a provision in the federal Freedom of Information Act.
An international court, charged with deciding cases in which freedom of expression violations are alleged, ruledearlier this week that attorneys should be prohibited from collecting “success fees” from unsucc
The United Kingdom, long a popular venue for libel suits that would fail under the stronger free speech protections of American law, is considering libel reforms that would create exceptions for public-interest reporting, bar multiple lawsuits arising from the same material and create new jurisdictional requirements, The Associated Press reported.
The Times Onlinereports that libel claims in the United Kingdom have dropped dramatically in the last decade, from 452 in 1997 to just 64 this current year.
